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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

So I’m in a specialty clinic, so I’m in this interdisciplinary memory assessment clinic. So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. And I pretty much present it as. And well, when we wrote this, I feel like I’m just doing everything in my presentation.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

How do you do that in clinical practice, in a way that doesn’t take five hours of sitting down with somebody? I’m fully present. So I mean, I had referrals from as far as Canadian Arctic North, of people who were interested in doing dignity therapy. Eric: So how do you do that? I’m not distracted.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice. Physicians often not present except for an occasional monthly visit. But what we wanted to do was to control for regional … what’s that called?

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. And that was one of the reasons that was appealing to us is that the conversation guide and could be delivered by lay facilitators in partnership with the clinical practice.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

Areej 03:50 So at the state of the science, I was actually presenting a study that was focused on addressing sexual health concerns in transplant survivors, and I actually told the story of the state of the science for those of you who were there. So we got a lot to cover on sexuality, sexual health, and serious illness.

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